"Figure 8: Excluding alignment and balancing adjustments, change in inventories contributed 1.46 percentage points to GDP growth in Quarter 4 2019","" "UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2019 to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (Apr to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec). 2. Contributions represent contributions to overall GDP growth. 3. Components may not sum to total gross domestic product due to rounding and loss of additivity in data prior to open period. The statistical discrepancy is also not displayed." "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "","Inventories including alignment and balancing adjustments","Inventories excluding alignment and balancing adjustments" "2019 Q1","1.15","1.23" "2019 Q2","-1.4","-1.09" "2019 Q3","-1.04","-1.05" "2019 Q4","0.16","1.46"